Re: [FWP] Benchmarking $|++

[Tushar Samant <D@i-works.com>]

>> I can't help it, I have to say this... I simply won't use a module
>> which does things like set $| = -1. 
>
>So, every time you download a module from CPAN you read through it
>meticulously line by line and make sure that it doesn't do anything
>"bizarre"?  I would then also assume that you have a personal list of
>such "bizzarenesses" that you look for... care to share them with the
>group?  ;-)

No. Modules that come with Perl I mostly just trust, and perhaps read
at leisure. For other modules, it's various criteria--well-known name,
trust it more, etc. Combine with an intuitive judgement based on its
looks. Modules which are very important to your job--in my case, LWP
etc--you sit down and read somewhat carefully. Of course I don't have
a strangeness checker. And often I find "strange" behaviour very late.

>TPJ should get you to judge the obscuation contest every year...

I don't think CPAN is in that sorry a state.


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